{"id":624,"date":"2006-11-23T23:29:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T04:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=624"},"modified":"2006-11-23T23:29:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T04:29:57","slug":"window-dressing-priorities-and-local-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"window dressing, priorities, and local acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three beautiful things from the week before Thanksgiving:<\/p>\n<p>1. A glass building has gone up near my office in recent months. Because the office does not yet have interior walls, sometimes you can see a little person working on one of the floors. One morning this week a window featured a bright yellow ladder and a brilliant blue tarp.<\/p>\n<p>2. I am not going to reach 50k for NaNoWriMo and I&#8217;m okay with that. 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